Environment: Custer's Last Stand

Just when most farmers are settling down for a winter's rest, Virgil
Steyer Jr. is usually working hardest. Steyer grows Christmas trees on
large tracts near secluded Mount Storm, W. Va. (pop: 160); every
December he serves droves of customers attracted from miles around by
the high quality of his crop. But this year business is bad. Not that
the Yuletide spirit has suddenly evaporated; rather Steyer's livelihood
has been threatened by air pollution.

Mount Storm's air is being fouled by emissions from the smokestacks of
two huge coal-burning power plants owned by Virginia...